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The most consequential COA failure mode: as systems become embedded, trained on institutional data, and relied upon for continuity, removal becomes increasingly costly. Humans lose the ability to operate without machine mediation. Delegation ceases to be a choice and becomes a dependency. Authority transfers not through governance but through inertia.
The institution restructured staffing, performance metrics, and throughput expectations around model-mediated decisions. Removing the system would require organisational redesign, not merely technical rollback. Delegation became irreversible not by design but by accumulated dependence.
Section 6.5: Irreversible Delegation